The Royal Family's Orphan is on the Rise

Chapter 278 Shen Jiarou and others enter the desert

Although he was also worried about the princess, the Tang Mansion was entrusted to him by the princess and he could not just sit there and do nothing.

Emperor Wenzong of Tang suppressed his sadness and forced himself to eat a bowl of white rice.

"Oh, God, sometimes it really is..." It makes people feel helpless.

Shen Jiarou and Ruan Qingling walked on their legs to an empty and uninhabited place.

Ruan Qingling said fearfully, "Sister, why is it getting more and more strange here? There are not many trees left."

Shen Jiarou sighed: "It looks like a desert."

Ruan Qingling was startled: "Where is the desert?"

"It's a place with no grass and no people. It's even more likely that there's no water." I don't know if I will die here.

When Ruan Qingling heard this, her eyes turned black and she felt dizzy.

"Hey, sister, wake up." Oh my God, why did she feel dizzy all of a sudden?

Shen Jiarou had been waiting there for the fainted person, getting up from time to time to look around to see if there was anything to eat, and she didn't dare to go far.

When Ruan Qingling woke up, it was already dark. She saw the pitch-black sky and surroundings and burst into tears in fear.

"Sister, where are you?" Where is my sister?

Shen Jiarou is holding some hair algae, which is a plant (algae) unique to the desert Gobi, with high nutritional value and delicious taste.

She panted and said, "Sister, I'm going to find something to eat."

Ruan Qingling burst into tears again: "Wow, wow, wow, I thought you were gone. I was scared to death."

Shen Jiarou put down the hair algae, knelt on the ground, and hugged Ruan Qingling, who was older than her, into her arms.

"Be good, I'm not gone. I just went out to look for food. If we don't eat now, we'll starve to death here before we even get out of the desert."

Dying in the desert is no different from dying in the forest; in the end, most people will probably be eaten by wild beasts.

In the moonlight, Ruan Qingling touched the grass and wanted to cry again.

"Are we going to eat grass?" Why does it feel like life in the desert is even harder than in the forest? There is no water and no food.

Shen Jiarou sighed: "There's nothing I can do. This is all I can find for now. There really isn't much else in the desert.

I have seen this in a book before. It is a wild vegetable with high nutritional value and delicious taste. However, it is not delicious at the moment, so we can only eat it raw."

Alas, she has been fighting with wild vegetables in this life, and her life is even more miserable than that of Wang Baochuan who had to stay in the cold kiln.

In desperation, Ruan Qingling grabbed the "wild grass" and started eating it, crying as she ate.

These days are even more tormenting than when they were in the palace. There is simply no hope.

To ease the atmosphere, Shen Jiarou said, "Let's go find food and water tomorrow morning. Let's conserve our energy today."

The two of them slept in each other's arms, giving each other comfort and hope.

The night was peaceful, and at dawn, Shen Jiarou was awakened by the cold.

"Sister, it's almost dawn, let's go find something to eat."

They must have not eaten for more than ten days, and they have become extremely thin.

Ruan Qingling woke up, looked at the endless desert, and shed tears quietly.

Thinking that she was the elder sister and the younger sister's maid, she raised her tattered sleeves to wipe away her tears and quickly adjusted her mentality.

"Sister, let's go find something to eat."

She is the elder sister and cannot let her younger sister take care of everything. What's more, her younger sister is a princess of noble status and it is she who is a burden to her master.

Maybe without her, the princess would have returned to the palace, living a life of luxury.

It's all her fault.

Shen Jiarou was delighted when she saw the Cistanche deserticola: "Sister, this... this is edible."

Ruan Qingling turned around and looked over, wanting to cry again.

"Sister, isn't this a tree?" When will trees become edible?

Shen Jiarou chuckled and shook her head: "It is Cistanche deserticola, a plant that parasitizes on the roots of the desert tree Haloxylon ammodendron, known as the "desert ginseng". It is regarded as a rare food ingredient with extremely high medicinal value and is a precious Chinese herbal medicine.

Cistanche deserticola not only has high nutritional value, but also contains a large amount of rare nutritional ingredients such as amino acids, cystine, vitamins and minerals. "

Listening to her chattering, Ruan Qingling felt dizzy.

"Then sister, what should we do?" No matter how she looked at it, she thought it was a tree. In fact, she thought it was more of a strange big grass.

Anyway, she has lived for more than ten years, and this is the first time she has seen this kind of plant.

The two men began to work, digging the sand with their hands.

Ruan Qingling felt stars in her eyes: "Sister, I can't do it anymore, my hands hurt so much."

I feel like my hand is going to break.

Shen Jiarou also sighed deeply. Her little hands were also in pain. She had never seen her hands so ugly. They were even uglier than her hands when she was in the Shen family courtyard.

"Forget it, I'll go see if I can find two sticks." Although it is difficult to find sticks in the desert, we can't give up completely.

After searching for a while, Shen Jiarou returned disappointed.

"No, is God going to kill us?" Their lives are really difficult, even more difficult than beggars.

Shen Jiarou had a sad face, and Ruan Qingling's expression wasn't much better.

In desperation, Shen Jiarou walked to the side of Cistanche deserticola, grabbed it and started pulling it up with all her strength.

"Sister, what are you doing?"

"Try to get it up." She was really very hungry, otherwise her strength wouldn't be so weak.

After the efforts of the two, they finally pulled off the Cistanche deserticola.

Looking at the hard and sandy Cistanche deserticola, Ruan Qingling expressed doubt.

"Sister, isn't this just a tree root? Can it really be eaten?"

Shen Jiarou rarely showed a simple and honest expression and scratched her head: "I only know that it can be eaten. This is the first time I've seen it. Why don't we try to chew it first?"

The two of them took a little bite and chewed it. Shen Jiarou was very impressed.

"Fortunately, my teeth are fine. If I were older, I might not be able to chew it."

Ruan Qingling chuckled: "If we were older, we wouldn't be able to come here."

Shen Jiarou chuckled: "That's true."

Ruan Qingling rarely saw her master looking silly, and she felt very sad.

After chewing some Cistanche deserticola, Ruan Qingling looked at her master.

"Sister, what should I do with the rest?"

"Take it with you. In case you can't find anything to eat later, at least it will help you get by." Oh, this damn desert. If she had known this would happen, she might as well stay in the forest. At least she could barbecue from time to time.

Uncle Hei was dressed in black and sitting under the shade of a tree eating a steamed bun.

He looked up at the sky, feeling helpless.

Princess, you have to hold on, Uncle Hei is here with his men to look for you.

The two continued walking in the desert, but they were walking aimlessly and they themselves didn't know which direction they were going.

Shen Jiarou stopped and looked up at the sky.

If she had studied hard in her previous life, she would have been able to tell the directions of east, south, west and north, and she should have also learned about celestial phenomena at night. She wouldn't have ended up here now, knowing nothing.

She decided that if she could return to the capital alive, she would study astronomy, read more books, eat more delicious food, and make up for those days.

The two of them didn't know how long they had been walking, and the sun had moved quite a bit.

Ruan Qingling said in a hoarse voice: "Sister, I'm so thirsty."

She felt like she was dying of thirst.

Shen Jiarou felt that she could not walk anymore and collapsed into the sand.

"Let's take a break." She seriously doubted whether she was going to finish her life journey.